Director Media Entrepreneurship & Interactive Journalism

About the writer

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Amy Eisman oversees AU's MA in Media Entrepreneurship program as well as facilitates the JoLT program linking gaming to journalism via a Knight Foundation grant. Previously she ran the weekend MA in Interactive Journalism as well. Eisman was involved in mainstream and then digital media for 25 years before joining the university. For the new MAME program, she forged a partnership with the downtown start-up incubator, 1776, for three schools at AU. Eisman teaches reporting and writing for convergent media. Eisman was an editor with Gannett, first as a cover story editor at the launch of USA TODAY and later as Executive Editor of USA WEEKEND. Eisman was also a managing editor at AOL and a Fulbright lecturer in Moscow. She has trained newsrooms on Web content and writing. She co-authored, with Larry Gillick, online training modules for Gannett about breaking news online, interactivity and database journalism. With Professor Wendell Cochran, she co-wrote a module about tools for citizen journalists for Knight Citizen News Network. She was co-chair of the 2010 Online News Association conference, and has judged the Knight-Batten award for Innovation in Journalism and the WHCA awards.